SCOIS

SCOIS (S.C. Occupational Information System) is South Carolina’s Official Career Resource Network. South Carolinians have used SCOIS for over 29 years to prepare for careers that will be in future demand. Students who use SCOIS can better prepare their Individualized Graduation Plans (IGPs.)

SCOIS is an internet available system and provides student and parent access to:

Note that username and password are to be entered as lower case characters. The fields are case sensitive.

You will have the only record of this user name and password so please make a note when you create them.

Career Exploration (Left Side of Screen)

Alphabetical listing of careers - Click on Occupation Quick Search for a list of careers. Let us presume you are interested in learning about a career in nuclear engineering. Click on "N" and scroll down to Nuclear Engineer and you will see an overview, tasks, commonn work activities, working conditions, skills needed, preparation

Career Clusters - Students find the careers clustered into 16 larger groups. For example, nuclear engineering would fall into the Science, Technology, engineering and Mathematics cluster. Other clusters include Architecture and Construction, Business Management and Administration, Government and Public Administration

Education Information (Left Side of Screen)

Alphabetical Listing of Colleges - Click on SC Schools or US Colleges and Universities

With so many universities, how will you choose the right one?

·Define your need

·Consider the general characteristics of your ideal college

·Visit college campuses, meet administrative officers.

·Choosing a college requires a great deal of thought and research See Choosing a College for some of the things to be considered in that effort

With the College Search option you can filter your results through the various criteria categories below which will yield a group of schools that are based on your described preferences

College Search - Use some or all of the Criteria Categories below to help choose colleges. A list of schools can then be generated for further exploration Majors|Degree|Location|Setting|Type|Size|Admissions|Tuition|Financial aid|Sports| Services

Note that the population of schools in your response may be based on any or all of the above criteria.

Example: Choose up to three majors related to nuclear studies to include in search of schools.

Using this list of 16 schools, a student reads general information about each school. For example, Indiana University student body is comprised of 7,496 and 769 graduate students. Other information includes costs, admissions standards, student life, ethnicity, etc. Search this data until your needs are met

The Education Information section also has links to Financial Aid Information

Assessment Tools (Left Side of Screen)

In this section one can explore several self administered assessment tools, including the Career Cluster Assessment, The Interest Profiler, and a Skills Assessment

Explore the SCOIS environment fully. The SCOIS web site contains a large amount of data useful to planning your future career path and concomitant education requirements. Get into the files, browse around, and learn where all the data you need is located. Go ahead! You really can't break anything